joe icepick wrote:Pay the man! I'm going to be pissed If they go cheap with him. I'll be watching Ray. Don't screw this up. For crying out loud they should have signed him already. Plus the dudes a warrior...never hurt, plays every game at 100%

Luckybreak wrote:When he scored the shortie I had really mixed emotions - are we going to keep Duper or Iggy?!

You wanna re-sign the round block to go in the round hole, or the square block to go in the round hole ?

It is fairly safe to assume, Iginla is going to want way more money then Duper. Plus what else does Duper have to do ? Look at the numbers, the fit, the locker room, the clutch plays/goals, the playing style, and I find it very hard to argue whom is the better player to re-sign for this team. I'll take production over a name and nostalgia any day.

For now.......fun to have them both on the same team, I think Iginla has his best series during this run against the Bruins, IMO.

Did you know that, since the 2011 Winter Classic in which Crosby was concussed, Dupuis has scored 32 goals without Crosby or Evgeni Malkin on the ice?Did you know 30 of those goals came at even-strength or short-handed since he's rarely on the power play? Did you see that laser over the shoulder of the Senators' Craig Anderson in Game 1 of the last round?Neither did Anderson.

Second, he'll get a deserved raise, but he ain't getting $5M anywhere.

He's getting $4+million unless he takes a home team discount from Mario/GMRS. His current peer group consists of guys making anywhere from 4 to over 7. If he accepts less he's either saved his money well or he is getting bad advice.

All water under the bridge and crying over spilt milk now but...I still don't understand how Duper (one of your leading goal scorers in the playoffs) gets virtually no power play time in this series. The pp sucked and it probably wouldn't mattered anyhow but that just seems ultra-dumb to me.